Don’t worry, be happy

WITH thanks to the late great Ian Dury, it is my rare pleasure today to present reasons to be cheerful (part three).

Don’t worry, be happy

Three, of course, being the magic number for the most magical sports story of the week — the number of goals St Patrick’s Athletic scored on aggregate to eliminate Krylia Sovetov in the Europa League; the number of goals they had conceded inside an hour before turning the second leg on its head; and, famously, the number of Pats supporters who were there in the flesh to witness the miracle of Samara.

“The stuff of dreams,” is how manager Jeff Kenna summed up the whole experience and who could disagree? Certainly not Declan ‘Fabio’ O’Brien, the striker who endured a nightmare at Dundalk but whose goal-a-game record in Europe since arriving at Pats just a few weeks ago has already assured him of Roy Of The Rovers status in Inchicore.

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